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Author Moazam, Farhat.

Title Bioethics and organ transplantation in a Muslim society : a study in culture, ethnography, and religion / Farhat Moazam
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 264 pages)
Series Bioethics and the humanities
Bioethics and the humanities.
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Stage: Backdrop, Props, and Protagonists; 2. Webs of Relationships and Obligations; 3. Giving and Receiving Kidneys: Perspectives of PakistaniPatients and Families; 4. A Surgeon in the Field; 5. Conclusion: Ethics and Pakistan; notes; selected bibliography; index
Summary This is an ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan, based on Farhat Moazam's participant-observer research conducted at a public hospital. Her narrative is both a ''thick'' description of renal transplant cases and the cultural, ethical, and family conflicts that accompany them, and an object lesson in comparative bioethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index
Notes English
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Subject Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Moral and ethical aspects
Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Psychological aspects
Medical ethics -- Pakistan
Bioethics.
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Family -- psychology
Islam -- psychology
Kidney Transplantation -- psychology
Living Donors -- psychology
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Bioethics
Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Psychological aspects
Medical ethics
SUBJECT Pakistan https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010154
Subject Pakistan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253112200
0253112206
1282072994
9781282072992
9786612072994
6612072997